ABSTRACT

This chapter further investigates the co-dependence between madness and subjectivity, but this time in rural North India. I do this by examining the indigenous discourses around the experience of seeing things and hearing voices that others do not. I explore the hermeneutic and discursive conditions, and the relevant visibilities, and subject positions to reveal styles of thinking and being that are not conducive to psychological intervention. Lastly, this chapter explores the relation between traumatic life events and hallucinatory experiences.